Ultra-high precision cosmology from gravitational waves (2009)
We show that the Big Bang Observer (BBO), a proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector, would provide ultra-precise measurements of cosmological parameters. By detecting ~300,000...
Massive black-hole binary inspirals: results from the LISA parameter estimation taskforce (2009)
Arun, K. G., Babak, Stas, Berti, Emanuele, Cornish, Neil, Cutler, Curt, Gair, Jonathan, ...
The LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce was formed in September 2007 to provide the LISA Project with vetted codes, source distribution models and results related to parameter estimation. The...
Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei (2009)
Miller, M. Coleman, Alexander, Tal, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Barth, Aaron J., Cutler, Curt, Gair, Jonathan R., ...
Electromagnetic observations over the last 15 years have yielded a growing appreciation for the importance of supermassive black holes (SMBH) to the evolution of galaxies, and for the intricacies of...
Will Einstein Have the Last Word on Gravity? (2009)
Schutz, Bernard F., Centrella, Joan, Cutler, Curt, Hughes, Scott A.
This is a whitepaper submitted to the 2010 Astronomy Decadal Review process, addressing the potential tests of gravity theory that could be made by observations of gravitational waves in the...
Massive Black Hole Binary Inspirals: Results from the LISA Parameter Estimation Taskforce (2008)
Arun, K. G., Babak, Stas, Berti, Emanuele, Cornish, Neil, Cutler, Curt, Gair, Jonathan, ...
The LISA Parameter Estimation (LISAPE) Taskforce was formed in September 2007 to provide the LISA Project with vetted codes, source distribution models, and results related to parameter estimation....
The Mock LISA data challenges: from challenge 1B to challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John, Benacquista, Matthew, Cornish, Neil, Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane, ...
Also archived in arXiv:0806.2110 v1 Jun 12, 2008. Proceedings from the 12th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Cambridge MA, from 13-16 December 2007
The Mock LISA data challenges: from challenge 1B to challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane L., ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane L., ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of...
Report on the second Mock LISA data challenge (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Cutler, Curt, ...
The Mock LISA data challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of several data sets containing...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane L., ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of...
Gaussianity of LISA's confusion backgrounds (2007)
Data analysis for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be complicated by the huge number of sources in the LISA band. In the frequency band ~10-^4 - 2×10^-3 Hz, galactic white...
Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge (2007)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Cutler, Curt, ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of several data sets containing...
A three-stage search for supermassive black-hole binaries in LISA data (2007)
Brown, Duncan A., Crowder, Jeff, Cutler, Curt, Mandel, Ilya, Vallisneri, Michele
Gravitational waves from the inspiral and coalescence of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) binaries with masses m1 ~ m2 ~ 10^6Modot are likely to be among the strongest sources for the Laser...
Gaussianity of LISA's confusion backgrounds (2007)
Data analysis for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be complicated by the huge number of sources in the LISA band. Throughout much of the band, galactic white dwarf binaries...
Cutler, Curt, Vallisneri, Michele
The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect the inspiral and merger of massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) at z
An overview of the mock LISA data challenges (2007)
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering the development of LISA...
A Three-Stage Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in LISA Data (2007)
Brown, Duncan A., Crowder, Jeff, Cutler, Curt, Mandel, Ilya, Vallisneri, Michele
Gravitational waves from the inspiral and coalescence of supermassive black-hole (SMBH) binaries with masses ~10^6 Msun are likely to be among the strongest sources for the Laser Interferometer Space...
Using LISA EMRI sources to test off-Kerr deviations in the geometry of massive black holes (2007)
Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) into ~106M[sun] black holes are especially interesting sources of gravitational waves for the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The...
Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges (2007)
Arnaud, Keith A., Auger, Gerard, Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Bloomer, Ed, ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data analysis tools and capabilities, and demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by...
An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges (2007)
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The Mock Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data-analysis tools and capabilities and of demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by the...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt, ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Boschi, V., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We carry out two searches for periodic gravitational waves using the most sensitive few hours of data from the second LIGO science run. Both searches exploit fully coherent matched filtering and...
Using LISA EMRI sources to test off-Kerr deviations in the geometry of massive black holes (2006)
Inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into $\sim 10^6 M_{\odot}$ black holes are especially interesting sources of gravitational waves for LISA. We investigate whether the emitted waveforms can...
Status of GEO600 detector (2006)
Willke,Benno, Aufmuth,Peter, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B., ...
Of all the large interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, the German/British project GEO600 is the only one which uses dual recycling. During the four weeks of the international S4 data-taking...
Willke,Benno, Aufmuth,Peter, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B., ...
The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector uses advanced technologies including signal recycling and monolithic fused-silica suspensions to achieve a sensitivity close to the kilometre scale LIGO and...
Status of GEO600 detector (2006)
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B., ...
Of all the large interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, the German/British project GEO600 is the only one which uses dual recycling. During the four weeks of the international S4 data-taking...
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector uses advanced technologies including signal recycling and monolithic fused-silica suspensions to achieve a sensitivity close to the kilometre scale LIGO and...
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component...
Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an...
Big Bang Observer and the neutron-star-binary subtraction problem (2006)
The Big Bang Observer (BBO) is a proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) mission designed primarily to search for an inflation-generated GW background in the frequency range ~10-1 Hz–1 Hz. The...
Status of the GEO600 detector (2006)
Lück, Harald, Hewitson, Martin, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, ...
Of all the large interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, the German/British project GEO600 is the only one which uses dual recycling. During the four weeks of the international S4 data-taking...
The generalized F-statistic: multiple detectors and multiple GW pulsars (2005)
Cutler,Curt, Schutz,Bernard F.
The F-statistic, derived by Jaranowski, Krolak & Schutz (1998), is the optimal (frequentist) statistic for the detection of nearly periodic gravitational waves from known neutron stars, in the...
Improved Stack-Slide Searches for Gravitational-Wave Pulsars (2005)
Cutler, Curt, Gholami, Iraj, Krishnan, Badri
We formulate and optimize a computational search strategy for detecting gravitational waves from isolated, previously-unknown neutron stars (that is, neutron stars with unknown sky positions, spin...
The generalized F-statistic: multiple detectors and multiple GW pulsars (2005)
Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F.
The F-statistic, derived by Jaranowski, Krolak & Schutz (1998), is the optimal (frequentist) statistic for the detection of nearly periodic gravitational waves from known neutron stars, in the...
Confusion Noise from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (2005)
Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes in galactic nuclei (aka ``extreme-mass-ratio inspirals'') will be an important source for LISA. However, a large fraction of captures will not...
Confusion noise from extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (2005)
Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes in galactic nuclei (aka ``extreme-mass-ratio inspirals'') will be an important source for LISA. However, a large fraction of captures will not...
Improved Stack-Slide Searches for Gravitational-Wave Pulsars (2005)
Cutler,Curt, Gholami,Iraj, Krishnan,Badri
We formulate and optimize a computational search strategy for detecting gravitational waves from isolated, previously-unknown neutron stars (that is, neutron stars with unknown sky positions, spin...
Improved Stack-Slide Searches for Gravitational-Wave Pulsars (2005)
Cutler, Curt, Gholami, Iraj, Krishnan, Badri
We formulate and optimize a computational search strategy for detecting gravitational waves from isolated, previously-unknown neutron stars (that is, neutron stars with unknown sky positions, spin...
The generalized F-statistic: multiple detectors and multiple GW pulsars (2005)
Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F.
The F-statistic, derived by Jaranowski, Krolak & Schutz (1998), is the optimal (frequentist) statistic for the detection of nearly periodic gravitational waves from known neutron stars, in the...
Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, ...
We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method...
Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We use data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for the gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescence with component masses in the range...
Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We use 373 hours ([approximate]15 days) of data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for signals from binary neutron star coalescences within a maximum...
Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Grote, Hartmut, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B., ...
Since December 2003, the gravitational-wave detector GEO 600 has routinely operated in the dual recycled mode, using a lock acquisition scheme based on the detection of optical sideband power at the...
Grote, Hartmut, Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., ...
Since December 2003, the gravitational-wave detector GEO 600 has routinely operated in the dual recycled mode, using a lock acquisition scheme based on the detection of optical sideband power at the...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair,J. R., Barack,Leor, Creighton,T., Cutler,Curt, Larson,S. L., Phinney,E. S., ...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair, Jonathan R., Barack, Leor, Creighton, Teviet, Cutler, Curt, Larson, Shane L., Phinney, E. Sterl, ...
One of the most exciting prospects for the LISA gravitational wave observatory is the detection of gravitational radiation from the inspiral of a compact object into a supermassive black hole. The...
Confusion Noise from LISA Capture Sources (2004)
Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei will be an important source for LISA, the space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. However, a large fraction of...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair, Jonathan R, Barack, Leor, Creighton, Teviet, Cutler, Curt, Larson, Shane L, Phinney, E Sterl, ...
One of the most exciting prospects for the LISA gravitational wave observatory is the detection of gravitational radiation from the inspiral of a compact object into a supermassive black hole. The...
First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,R., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,B., Amin,R., ...
Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive (¡" 106M¡Ñ) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector....
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair, Jonathan R., Barack, Leor, Creighton, Teviet, Cutler, Curt, Larson, Shane L., Phinney, E. Sterl, ...
One of the most exciting prospects for the LISA gravitational wave observatory is the detection of gravitational radiation from the inspiral of a compact object into a supermassive black hole. The...
Confusion noise from LISA capture sources (2004)
Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei will be an important source for LISA, the space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. However, a large fraction of...
Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive ($\sim 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW)...
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan,G., Allen,Bruce, Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Amin,R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Willke,Benno, Aufmuth,Peter, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is currently being commissioned as a part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies such as...
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
Confusion Noise from LISA Capture Sources (2004)
Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei will be an important source for LISA, the space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. However, a large fraction of...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott,B., Abbott,F., Adhikari,R., Ageev,A., Allen,Bruce, Amin,R., ...
Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive (¡" 106M¡Ñ) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector....
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan, G., Allen, Bruce, Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is currently being commissioned as a part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies such as...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
Confusion Noise from LISA Capture Sources (2004)
Captures of compact objects (COs) by massive black holes (MBHs) in galactic nuclei will be an important source for LISA, the space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector. However, a large fraction of...
Event rate estimates for LISA extreme mass ratio capture sources (2004)
Gair, Jonathan R., Barack, Leor, Creighton, Teviet D., Cutler, Curt, Larson, Shane L., Phinney, E. S., ...
First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors. Our search focuses on bursts...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Commissioning, characterization and operation of the dual-recycled GEO 600 (2004)
Smith, J. R., Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., ...
The German-British laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detector GEO 600 is currently being commissioned as part of a worldwide network of gravitational-wave detectors. GEO 600 recently became...
Strain, Kenneth A., Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. GEO 600 is unique in having advanced multiple pendulum suspensions with a...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
Captures of stellar-mass compact objects (COs) by massive ($\sim 10^6 M_\odot$) black holes (MBHs) are potentially an important source for LISA, the proposed space-based gravitational-wave (GW)...
A report on the status of the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector (2003)
Hewitson,M., Aufmuth,Peter, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B. W., ...
GEO 600 is an interferometric gravitational wave detector with 600 m arms, which will employ a novel, dual-recycled optical scheme allowing its optical response to be tuned over a range of...
Cutler,Curt, Ushomirsky,Greg, Link,Bennett
We calculate the crustal rigidity parameter, b, of a neutron star (NS), and show that b is a factor 40 smaller than the standard estimate due to Baym & Pines (1971). For a NS with a relaxed crust,...
LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the gravitation (2003)
Cutler,Curt, Hiscock,William A., Larson,Shane L.
We extend and improve earlier estimates of the ability of the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave detector to place upper bounds on the graviton mass, m_g, by...
Detector characterization in GEO 600 (2003)
Sintes,Alicia M., Aufmuth,Peter, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B. W., ...
The GEO 600 interferometric gravitational wave detector conducted its first science run (S1) from 23 August 2002 to 9 September 2002. The GEO 600 data acquisition system is described together with...
Cutler, Curt, Ushomirsky, Greg, Link, Bennett
We calculate the crustal rigidity parameter, b, of a neutron star (NS), and show that b is a factor 40 smaller than the standard estimate due to Baym & Pines (1971). For a NS with a relaxed crust,...
LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the gravitation (2003)
Cutler, Curt, Hiscock, William A., Larson, Shane L.
We extend and improve earlier estimates of the ability of the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave detector to place upper bounds on the graviton mass, m_g, by...
A report on the status of the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector (2003)
Hewitson, Martin, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
GEO 600 is an interferometric gravitational wave detector with 600 m arms, which will employ a novel, dual-recycled optical scheme allowing its optical response to be tuned over a range of...
Detector characterization in GEO 600 (2003)
Sintes, Alicia M., Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 interferometric gravitational wave detector conducted its first science run (S1) from 23 August 2002 to 9 September 2002. The GEO 600 data acquisition system is described together with...
Status of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector (2003)
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO600 laser interferometric gravitational wave detector is approaching the end of its commissioning phase which started in 1995.During a test run in January 2002 the detector was operated for 15...
Vortex Unpinning in Precessing Neutron Stars (2002)
The neutron vortices thought to exist in the inner crust of a neutron star interact with nuclei and are expected to pin to the nuclear lattice. Evidence for long-period precession in pulsars,...
Cutler, Curt, Ushomirsky, Greg, Link, Bennett
We calculate the crustal rigidity parameter, b, of a neutron star (NS), and show that b is a factor 40 smaller than the standard estimate due to Baym & Pines (1971). For a NS with a relaxed crust,...
LISA, binary stars, and the mass of the graviton (2002)
Cutler, Curt, Hiscock, William A., Larson, Shane L.
We extend and improve earlier estimates of the ability of the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave detector to place upper bounds on the graviton mass, m_g, by...
Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars with Large Toroidal B-fields (2002)
We show that NS's with large toroidal B-fields tend naturally to evolve into potent gravitational-wave (gw) emitters. The toroidal field B_t tends to distort the NS into a prolate shape, and this...
An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (2002)
We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the...
GEO 600 - Research, Progress and Prospects (2002)
Hough,Jim, Aufmuth,Peter, Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B. W., Brozec,O. S., Cagnoli,G., ...
The GEO 600 Gravitational Wave Detector (2002)
Willke,Benno, Aufmuth,Peter, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Barr,B. W., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies like multiple pendulum suspensions with a...
Data acquisition and detector characterization of GEO600 (2002)
Kötter,Karsten, Aulbert,Carsten, Babak,S., Balasubramanian,R., Berukoff,Steven, Bose,Sukanta, ...
The data acquisition system of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 is recording the first data now. Data from detector subsystems and environmental channels are being acquired. The data...
Merlin cluster - report for the BAR (2002)
Allen,Bruce, Aulbert,Carsten, Berukoff,Steven, Cutler,Curt, Feg,Thomas, Naundorf,Holger, ...
This is the report to the BAR that contains the design specifications for the cluster that the GEO data analysis group at the AEI is planning to build in order to perform searches for continuous...
An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (2002)
We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the...
Merlin cluster - report for the BAR (2002)
Allen, Bruce, Aulbert, Carsten, Berukoff, Steven, Cutler, Curt, Feg, Thomas, Naundorf, Holger, ...
This is the report to the BAR that contains the design specifications for the cluster that the GEO data analysis group at the AEI is planning to build in order to perform searches for continuous...
The GEO 600 Gravitational Wave Detector (2002)
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies like multiple pendulum suspensions with a...
Data acquisition and detector characterization of GEO600 (2002)
Kötter, Karsten, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Berukoff, Steven J., Bose, Sukanta, ...
The data acquisition system of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 is recording the first data now. Data from detector subsystems and environmental channels are being acquired. The data...
Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars with Large Toroidal B-fields (2002)
We show that NS's with large toroidal B-fields tend naturally to evolve into potent gravitational-wave (gw) emitters. The toroidal field B_t tends to distort the NS into a prolate shape, and this...
An Overview of Gravitational-Wave Sources (2002)
We review current best estimates of the strength and detectability of the gravitational waves from a variety of sources, for both ground-based and space-based detectors, and we describe the...
GEO 600 - Research, Progress and Prospects (2002)
Hough, Jim, Aufmuth, Peter, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., Brozek, Oliver Sascha, Cagnoli, G., ...
Vortex Unpinning in Precessing Neutron Stars (2002)
The neutron vortices thought to exist in the inner crust of a neutron star interact with nuclei and are expected to pin to the nuclear lattice. Evidence for long-period precession in pulsars,...
Gravitational wave damping of neutron star wobble (2001)
Cutler, Curt, Jones, David Ian
We calculate the effect of gravitational wave (GW) back reaction on realistic neutron stars (NS’s) undergoing torque-free precession. By “realistic” we mean that the NS is treated as a mostly...
Gravitational Wave Damping of Neutron Star Wobble (2001)
We calculate the effect of gravitational wave (gw) back-reaction on realistic neutron stars (NS's) undergoing torque-free precession. By ''realistic' we mean that the NS is treated as a mostly-fluid...
Gravitational Wave Damping of Neutron Star Wobble (2001)
Cutler, Curt, Jones, David Ian
We calculate the effect of gravitational wave (gw) back-reaction on realistic neutron stars (NS's) undergoing torque-free precession. By ''realistic' we mean that the NS is treated as a mostly-fluid...
Gravitational Wave Damping of Neutron Star Wobble (2000)
Cutler, Curt, Jones, David Ian
We calculate the effect of gravitational wave (gw) back-reaction on realistic neutron stars (NS's) undergoing torque-free precession. By `realistic' we mean that the NS is treated as a mostly-fluid...
Gravitational Waves from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: a Status Report (2000)
Ushomirsky, Greg, Bildsten, Lars, Cutler, Curt
We summarize the observations of the spin periods of rapidly accreting neutron stars. If gravitational radiation is responsible for balancing the accretion torque at the observed spin frequencies of...
Deformations of Accreting Neutron Star Crusts and Gravitational Wave Emission (2000)
Ushomirsky, Greg, Cutler, Curt, Bildsten, Lars
Motivated by the narrow range of spin frequencies of nearly 20 accreting neutron stars, Bildsten (1998) conjectured that their spin-up had been halted by the emission of gravitational waves. He also...
Choptuik scaling in six dimensions (1999)
Garfinkle, David, Cutler, Curt, Duncan, G. Comer
We perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in 6 dimensions. The critical solution has discrete self-similarity. We find the...
Choptuik scaling in six dimensions (1999)
Garfinkle,David, Cutler,Curt, Duncan,G. Comer
We perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in 6 dimensions. The critical solution has discrete self-similarity. We find the...
Choptuik scaling in six dimensions (1999)
Garfinkle, David, Cutler, Curt, Comer, Duncan G.
We perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in 6 dimensions. The critical solution has discrete self-similarity. We find the...
Choptuik scaling in six dimensions. (1999)
Garfinkle, David, Cutler, Curt, Comer, Duncan
We perform numerical simulations of the critical gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric scalar field in 6 dimensions. The critical solution has discrete self-similarity. We find the...
Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars (1998)
Owen,Benjamin J., Lindblom,Lee, Cutler,Curt, Schutz,Bernard F., Vecchio,Alberto, Andersson,Nils
Gravitational radiation drives an instability in the r-modes of young rapidly rotating neutron stars. This instability is expected to carry away most of the angular momentum of the star by...
Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars (1998)
Owen, Benjamin J., Lindblom, Lee, Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F., Vecchio, Alberto, Andersson, Nils
Gravitational radiation drives an instability in the r-modes of young rapidly rotating neutron stars. This instability is expected to carry away most of the angular momentum of the star by...
Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars (1998)
Owen, Benjamin J., Lindblom, Lee, Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F., Vecchio, Alberto, Andersson, Nils
Gravitational radiation drives an instability in the r-modes of young rapidly rotating neutron stars. This instability is expected to carry away most of the angular momentum of the star by...
Searching for periodic sources with LIGO (1998)
Brady,Patrick R., Creighton,Teviet, Cutler,Curt, Schutz,Bernard F.
We investigate the computational requirements for all-sky, all-frequency searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars, using archived data from interferometric gravitational wave...
Searching for periodic sources with LIGO (1998)
Brady, Patrick R., Creighton, Teviet, Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F.
We investigate the computational requirements for all-sky, all-frequency searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars, using archived data from interferometric gravitational wave...
Searching for periodic sources with LIGO (1998)
Brady, Patrick R., Creighton, Teviet D., Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F.
We investigate the computational requirements for all-sky, all-frequency searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars, using archived data from interferometric gravitational wave...
Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars (1998)
Owen, Benjamin J., Lindblom, Lee, Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F., Vecchio, Alberto, Andersson, Nils
Gravitational radiation drives an instability in the r-modes of young rapidly rotating neutron stars. This instability is expected to carry away most of the angular momentum of the star by...
Bildsten, Lars, Cumming, Andrew, Ushomirsky, Greg, Cutler, Curt
Observations of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the luminosity from many accreting neutron stars (NS) have led us to investigate a source of periodicity prevalent in other stars: non-radial...
Angular Resolution of the LISA Gravitational Wave Detector (1997)
We calculate the angular resolution of the planned LISA detector, a space-based laser interferometer for measuring low-frequency gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic sources. LISA is...
Searching for periodic sources with LIGO (1997)
Brady, Patrick R., Creighton, Teviet, Cutler, Curt, Schutz, Bernard F.
We investigate the computational requirements for all-sky, all-frequency searches for gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars, using archived data from interferometric gravitational wave...
Gravitational Helioseismology? (1996)
The magnitudes of the external gravitational perturbations associated with the normal modes of the Sun are evaluated to determine whether these solar oscillations could be observed with the proposed...
Gravitational radiation reaction for bound motion around a Schwarzschild black hole (1994)
Cutler, Curt, Kennefick, Daniel, Poisson, Eric
A particle of mass μ moves, in the absence of external forces, in the geometry of a nonrotating black hole of mass M. The system (black hole plus particle) emits gravitational waves, and the...
Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Cutler, Curt, Sussman, Gerald J., Thorne, Kip S.
Merging compact binaries are currently regarded as the most promising source of gravitational waves for the planned Earth-based LIGO/VIRGO laser-interferometer detector system, and will be an...
The most promising source of gravitational waves for the planned detectors LIGO and VIRGO are merging compact binaries, i.e., neutron star/neutron star (NS/NS), neutron star/black hole (NS/BH), and...
Cutler, Curt, Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Bildsten, Lars, Finn, Lee Samuel, Flanagan, Eanna E., Kennefick, Daniel, ...
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological,...
Cutler, Curt, Apostolatos, Theocharis A., Bildsten, Lars, Finn, Lee Samuel, Flanagan, Eanna E., Kennefick, Daniel, ...
Gravitational-wave interferometers are expected to monitor the last three minutes of inspiral and final coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries at distances approaching cosmological,...
Astone, P., Cutler, Curt, Frasca, Sergio, Krolak, Andrzej, Papa, Maria Alessandra, Schutz, Bernard F., ...
An Overview of the Mock LISA Data Challenges
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering the development of LISA...
A How-To for the Mock LISA Data Challenges
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST- WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering development of LISA data-analysis...